Blackwell, Charles
- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published/Created:
- New York
1955 July 5 - Physical Description:
- 11 slides
2 x 2 in.
color, Kodachrome - Notes:
- Stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
- Abstract:
- Slide numbers 1734, 1737, 1738, 1739, 1740, 1741, 1743, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748. Image set number LXXXVIIc. Image 1734 depicts Blackwell wearing a wrapper (also known as a lappa) of the Fante (also known as Mfantsefo). Image 1737-1741 depict him wearing a sabador from Sengal. Image 1743-1748 depict him wearing traditional Tutsi dress (referred to as Watusi)
- Topics:
- African American dancers
- Topics:
- Blackwell, Charles
- Genre:
- Slides (photographs)
Studio portraits - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; permission of the Trust is required to publish Van Vechten photographs in any format. To learn more, contact the Curator, Yale Collection of American Literature.
- Access Restrictions:
- Public
- Digital:
- Van Vechten Photographs
- Source Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Source Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
- Source Created:
- 1800-1971
- Source Note:
- Series IV. Photographs. Color Slides. Portraits
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 1050
- Box:
- 225
- Orbis Record:
- 13211157
- Finding Aid:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.vanvechtjwj
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- Yale Collection of American Literature
- oid pointer:
- 1093389
- Citation:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Image set: LXXXVIIc
- Extent of digitization:
- Complete work digitized.
- OID:
- 2024231
- PID:
- digcoll:3422346
